SPECIMEN MATERIAL

GCSE
FRENCH
8658/LH
H
Higher Tier Paper 1 Listening

Specimen mark scheme

June 2018
v1.0
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Mark schemes are prepared by the Lead Assessment Writer and considered, together with the relevant
questions, by a panel of subject teachers. This mark scheme includes any amendments made at the
standardisation events which all associates participate in and is the scheme which was used by them in
this examination. The standardisation process ensures that the mark scheme covers the students’
responses to questions and that every associate understands and applies it in the same correct way.
As preparation for standardisation each associate analyses a number of students’ scripts. Alternative
answers not already covered by the mark scheme are discussed and legislated for. If, after the
standardisation process, associates encounter unusual answers which have not been raised they are
required to refer these to the Lead Assessment Writer.

It must be stressed that a mark scheme is a working document, in many cases further developed and
expanded on the basis of students’ reactions to a particular paper. Assumptions about future mark
schemes on the basis of one year’s document should be avoided; whilst the guiding principles of
assessment remain constant, details will change, depending on the content of a particular examination
paper.

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Qu Accept Mark
01 B 1

Qu Accept Mark
02 C 1

Qu Accept Mark
03 F 1

Qu Accept Mark
04 D 1

Qu Accept Mark
05 C 1

Qu Accept Mark
06 C 1

Qu Accept Mark
07 A 1

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Qu Accept Mark

08.1 C 1

Qu Accept Mark

08.2 A 1

Qu Accept Mark
09.1 B 1

Qu Accept Mark
09.2 B 1

Qu Accept Mark

10.1 C 1

Qu Accept Mark

10.2 C 1

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Qu Key idea Accept Reject Mark

Traffic jams = 1 Hold-ups/congestion = 1

11 2
Go more slowly = 1 Slow down/go slow = 1

Qu Key idea Accept Reject Mark

They are respected = 1 Everyone obeys the rules = 1

12 2
Fewer accidents/injuries = 1

Qu Key idea Accept Reject Mark

Jobs = 1 The prison will create jobs = 1 new prison

13 (A plan to) encourage people to move/live more people moving into the 2
there = 1 area = 1

Qu Key idea Accept Reject Mark

Prison doesn’t work = 1 No point/why lock up more

14 criminals = 1 2
A cheaper alternative is needed = 1

Qu Key idea Accept Reject Mark

Prisons don’t make us safe(r) = 1

15 2
Young people become more criminal = 1 It’s a school for crime = 1

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Qu Key idea Accept Reject Mark

16 Advantage: Easy to download (books) =

1 2
Disadvantage: text/words too small = 1

Qu Key idea Accept Reject Mark

17 Advantage: E-books can read aloud to

you = 1
2
Disadvantage: Hard to read in
sunlight/when it’s sunny = 1

Qu Accept Mark
18.1 B 1

Qu Accept Mark
18.2 C 1

Qu Accept Mark
19.1 C 1

Qu Accept Mark
19.2 B 1

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Qu Key idea Accept Reject Mark

Insulting/scornful/thinks Doesn’t understand them

20 Negative 1
they are hopeless

Qu Key idea Accept Reject Mark

21 Those who are not sporty Unsporty students Those who dislike the subject 1

Qu Key idea Accept Reject Mark

22 Stay (for another 2 years) Not leave 1

Qu Accept Mark

23 C 1

Qu Accept Mark

24 C 1

Qu Accept Mark

25 B 1

Qu Accept Mark

26 A 1

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Qu Accept Mark

27 C E (in any order) 2

Qu Accept Mark

28 A E (in any order) 2

Qu Accept Mark

29 D E (in any order) 2

Qu Accept Mark

30.1 nécessaire/essentiel 1

Qu Accept Reject Mark

30.2 Belle/romantique/magique 1

Qu Accept Reject Mark

31.1 important 1

Qu Accept Reject Mark

31.2 divorces/séparations/mariages qui ne durent pas 1

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Qu Accept Mark

32 D 1

Qu Accept Mark

33 A 1

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